It's far from unreasonable for a player you don't want to sell and a player we want, as said before the reasoning on here is incredible.I wanted to concentrate on defensive players but you are right.
I honestly don't see why a figure in the region of £50m is seen as unreasonable.
Lookat the dates. also are you saying Cucurella isn't as good a player as those??? We said we would sell at a reasonable value and £50m is You say it would put him behind those players at cost Well 3 of those players in Cancelo Mendy and Walker you paid for.Well, two of those are centrebacks who are notoriously more expensive than full backs
Cancelo was an odd one as he had an overinflated price tag as it was a bit of clever financing as we sold Danilo for £34mil to Juve (think of the deal between Barca/Juve with Arthur and Pjanic)
Also he had over 100 caps between big European clubs Valencia, Inter Milan, Juventus and had been part of Seria A team of rhe year with Inter
Walker was arguably the most consistent if not the best RB in the country for the last 5 or so years before his move, making PFA team of the year 2 times....Plus he was bought from a top 4 contender
Mendy was a disaster, but he'd just powered Monaco through the champions league and was thought of as one of the best in the world that season....also exactly what we needed....but injuries completely drained his ability as he was very pace/power dependent
So on paper, buying your player of the season really doesn't compare to the Walker and Cancelo, two of the best full backs in the world when we bough them
The Ake figure is actually a good one. Ake, a CB, was Bournemouth two time player of the season but that was also Pre-Covid prices
Think £40mil is fair for cucurella, it would put him behind only Hernandez, Cancelo, Mendy, Hakimi, Walker, Wan Bissaka, Chillwell and Ferland Mendy for most expensive full back transfers of all time
Hardly disrespectful offering the same/more than the cost of Zincheko, Tierney etc. As a first bid
You do have the right to negotiate but surely the first bid should be the lowest fee you expect to be accepted otherwise whats the point of offering it??The ONLY arguments I would put forward are that the post-pandemic world might be a little different but you have a right to have a fee in mind and we are right to try to negotiate downwards: it is all just part of the dance.
Thank-you.It's far from unreasonable for a player you don't want to sell and a player we want, as said before the reasoning on here is incredible.
But you must bend over, take your pants down and let us have our wicked way, otherwise it's simply not fair according to some. FFS
The great difficulty, in the Twitter age, is knowing what is truth and what is not; I don't know how legitimate this 30m flat fee is - all of our recent purchases have included add-ons so, personally, I doubt that was the full scale of the offer, though equally this is just opinion. Other than that, I agree with you.You do have the right to negotiate but surely the first bid should be the lowest fee you expect to be accepted otherwise whats the point of offering it??
You for got one thing, we paid 100m for Jack Grealish, different position/player but it set a bench mark for future transfer fees.
We payed way over value for Grealish, that's my point, but he was a player Pep wanted badly and the club went out and paid the required fee.No it didn’t. We bought Phillips for a low(ish) fee. We got Alverez on the cheap.
I'm saying there is a smaller pool of info when it comes to Cucurella as in truth he's only had a few top flight seasonsLookat the dates. also are you saying Cucurella isn't as good a player as those??? We said we would sell at a reasonable value and £50m is You say it would put him behind those players at cost Well 3 of those players in Cancelo Mendy and Walker you paid for.
I think he will go to you now.I think it will be £45 plus 5 add ons or a player a like McAtee with £40m cash. I don't think it will be much below 50. You paid £40m for Ake from Bournemouth, and this season you paid £45m for Phillips. £30m is an insult and these two players are good examples why we are not being out of order.